Facing Seekvaira

After the party was cancelled there was an emergency meeting between the higher ups of the alliance.

"The Devils were too careless, what a blunder." The vice-governor of the fallen angels Shemhaza said. Azazel didn't say anything, but secretly agreed inside. They were going over the info from the reports, and future precautions. Since Tannin was away from them at the time, and Rias and Koneko kept quiet about it, they at least didn't get the info that Alex revealed during the conflict. There were several people already unnerved about his unreal level of secret knowledge, but thanks to him they also arrived at the conclusion that the Kaos brigade was mostly using Ophis, and that she didn't actually want the things they were doing. This didn't change the fact that for the moment they saw her as an enemy though.

As they were talking, the door to the meeting room opened and an elderly looking man with an eye patch and a warrior woman wearing armor walked in. Everyone present froze as the name of the old man sounded throughout the room,

"Odin." Then suddenly Azazel spoke up,

"Hey geezer from the north, how have you been?" Odin looked at Azazel and didn't seem to take offense to his words before saying,

"Hey fallen brat, playing friends with your enemies now? Or are you planning something from the side again?" Before Azazel could respond however, Odin's attention was taken by the magical girl Maou.

"Oh Serafall, what is that you're wearing?" Serafall stood and took a pose,

"This is a magical girls outfit you know! 💕" the current leviathan Maou said to the northern God. As he was trying to examine her, the female warrior stepped forward and said,

"Lord Odin think about your image, if the knew you were doing this then Valhalla will cry you know?" Odin looked exhausted with his attendants words and said,

"This is why you can't get a boyfriend, so stuffy." The girl then broke down crying, Odin ignored her and turned back to Azazel and Sirzechs,

"So I heard that not only are you making your little sisters fight, the red dragon emperor is going to solo a whole peerage? You Devils really deserve the name don't you?" After Odin changed the topic the rest of the meetings attendees started discussing the next day's games.

***

The next day Alex was preparing for his fight. Azazel was briefing Rias's team for their fight against Sona, and Ravel was reporting the information she found about Seekvaira to Alex. He was truly grateful for this, because he couldn't remember that much about her from the series. However, Ravel mentioned her ability, and Alex immediately got excited. The reason was that the ability of the Agares house she belonged to was time manipulation. If Alex managed to get her to cooperate with him then he might be able to make his own hyperbolic time chamber in the future. The other piece of choice information that Ravel gave him, was that she was a huge mecha otaku. If he played his cards right he could bribe her with mechas from other worlds in the future to cooperate with him.

When the time came, Alex went to the magic circle in the Gremory castle with Rias and the others. They would be going to their fight first, and Alex would be leaving after them. They each said their encouragement to each other. Akeno looked at koneko with a look of determination. It appeared that after hearing about her using her nekomata powers that she sealed, Akeno also gained the determination to use her powers as well.

After wishing each other luck, Rias, Akeno, Koneko, Kiba, Xenovia, Asia, and Gasper all left through the magic circle. A moment later Alex stepped onto it as well, and after a flash of light appeared in a cave. He looked at his surroundings, and saw that he was in a mountainous area. As he was observing the area, a voice he hadn't heard before introduced themselves as the arbitrator,can't explained the rules.

"The arena is a wide forested mountainous area, with the base of Seekvaira Agares in the north, and the base of the red dragon emperor Alex in the south. Pawns will need to reach the opponents base to promote, and the game will continued until one side gives up, is completely defeated, or the king is defeated. The game will start after thirty minutes."

Alex sighed at the rules, it was a basic game but Seekvaira was known for strategizing. As he was the only one on his side, he decided it would most likely be best to fly up into the air and challenge them head on instead of going through any traps singlehandedly. It would be harder for them to surprise attack him as well. He spent the rest of his thirty minutes going through the information Ravel gave him, then the game began.

"Balance break!"

...

Nothing happened. Alex frowned and tried again.

"Balance break!"

...

'Ddraig what's going on?' Ddraig simply replied,

<consequences> Alex was dumbfounded.

'Consequences for what?!' Ddraig just sighed and explained.

<when you tried to combine the super Saiyan and the boosted gear, the resulting energy was higher than anything the boosted gear had ever produced. Since your body was unable to handle the energy it went into a forced shutdown. Summon the gauntlet and you'll see the timer.> Alex had a feeling of dread at Ddraig's words, and summoned his gauntlet for the first time since his experiment. The red gauntlet appeared as normal, but the jewel was dim, and it displayed a number in it.

<26d 15h 34m 57s>

'WAIT I CANT USE THE BOOSTED GEAR FOR A WHOLE MONTH?!!!' Alex shouted in his mind. Ddraig confirmed his question and Alex asked,

'When were you planning on telling me?'

<you never checked the gear until now. And both Lauren and I decided you should find out the consequences of your actions on your own, unless your life was at risk otherwise.> Alex didn't know wether he should laugh or cry. He figured it wasn't anything he could cry over though, and headed out to the middle of the sky to meet his opponents. He decided that he could use this time to use his other skills more, plus for the truly drastic situations he always had the super Saiyan. As he was flying he suddenly heard the announcement,

"Seekvaira Agares peerage members except the king, retired." Alex was confused, but after he reached the spot he was going to wait, Seekvaira was also on her way so he didn't have to wait long for answers.

"What gives?" He asked when she got close enough. Seekvaira sighed at his question and replied while rubbing her temples.

"There's no other way to truly fight you in these games. You're not weak, there would be the chance of me losing even with my peerage. If you beat all of us then my standing would plummet to the bottom for losing to a single person. If we won, it wouldn't be without casualties and my standing will still drop from having such a hard time beating a single person, plus it will be said we only won by ganging up on you. Challenging you myself only puts my personal capabilities into question. I win I appear stronger, I lose then I simply lost against a legendary dragon."

Alex was surprised at her words, but was also conflicted. On one hand he would have an easier time in this game, on the other he lost the chance to fight a whole group of people. It would've been nice to challenge himself a little. He couldn't change it though since they were already retired, and got into a battle position. Seekvaira was already forming various magic circles around her, and Alex decided to fight the same way.

When his spells rushed at her they suddenly slowed down to a crawl. Alex realized that this was her time manipulation. He then decided to see how far she could push it, and created more magic circles and started preparing his fire breath. She then loosed her own at him so he covered himself in his scale plates, and they mostly bounced harmlessly off of him. She was dumbfounded at his plated scales, as it wasn't his normal balance breaker, and was slow to rest to the next barrage of spells.

Barely catching the spells, she was caught off guard by the sudden rush of flames at her. Though he didn't power them with his boost, they were still the flames of a dragon god. It was under these that Seekvaira was unable to keep up and all the spells broke free from her time manipulation and rushed her at once.

"Seekvaira Agares King retired. The winner is the red dragon emperor, Alex." The announcement sounded out.